St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-25
HOT SHOT FROM BRAGG.
The Ex-Leader of Wisconsin's Iron Bri-
gade Defends President Cleve-
lands Veto
Of the Dependent Pension Bill in an Flo
quent and Exceedingly Vigorous
Speech.

SPSSSds
The Proposed Beneficiaries. He Says,
Mainly Il ospital Attendants and
Coffee Coolers.
The House Refuses to Reverse the Ex-
ecutive's Decision--Th Senate
President.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24.-The speaker
laid before the house messages from
the president returning, without his
approval. bills granting pension
to Anthony McRobertson, increasing
the pension of Margaret T. Jones and Lorin
Burritt. and for the relief of William II.
Moorehauser. Referred to appropriate COM
mittee. Messrs. Randall. Forney and Ryan
were appointed conferees on the sundry
civil appropriation bills. Senate amend
ments to the military appropriation bill
We're conc urred in. Mr.. Henderson called
up the report of the committee on elections
upon the Indiana contested election case of
Kidd against Steele, and the resolution re-
ported was adopted without division. lit
confirms the right of the contestee, Steele.
the District of Columbia appropriation bill
were non-concurred in.
THE PoSTOFFICE BILL.
Mr.. Blount called up the report of the
committee of the whole on the senate
amendments to the postoffice appropriation
bill. The first three senate amendments were
concurred in. On the fourth amendment
(the proposition appropriating $500, 600 to
enable the postmaster general to contract
for the carrying of foreign mails on Ameri-
can vessels to Central and South America)
non-cOncurrence was recommended, Mr..
Burrows moved that the house concur in the
senate amendment. Lost, yeas 130. nays
! 157. The following Democrats voted in
! the affirmative:
Messrs. Adams, New York, Blanchard, Camp
| bell, Ohio, Compton, Curtin, Finlay, Foran,
| Iron, King, Lawor, Love, Martin Mitchell.
! Spriggs, ST. Martin, Tillman and Viele The
! following Republicans voted in the negative:
| MesSrs Anderson, Kansas, Fuller, Guenther,
Henderson, Iowa, La Toilette, Dehlbach, Nc
Comas. Nelson, O'Donnell, Payson, Rowell,
| Strait, Struble Wakefield, Warner, Missouri,
and Weaver, Nebraska.
The amendment was then nOn-cOncurred
in and a conference was ordered.
THE VETO SUSTAINED.
Mr.. Matson, Indiana, called up the de-
| of the president thereon. A long debate
| ensued, which was participated in by mem
bers on both sides OF the house. Mr.. Bragg
said that the mem who advocated this bill
were not the friends of the true soldiers.
They advocated this bill. many of them,
why? Simply because the men could vote,
whom they expected to buy by this bill.
Mr.. Henderson-For one I pronounce
that false. Applause on Republican side
and in the galleries.
Mr.. Bragg say that that is the sub
| stratum upon which this action is based. If
these men whom they call paupers were to
call upon them individually for aid, they
would say to them you good -for-nothing
scoundrels, you are as competent to work
as we are" Laughter ard applause on
| the Republican side. This bill would grant
| pensions to the men who had served from
December 1864 to June 1865. Who were
those men? They were the scum of the
the dregs. They stayed in their homes nn-
| til they were bought-bought by men who
/! specnlated in blood-paid from 500 to
| $500 with the private assurance that they
were physically so defective that all they
| had to do was to
| GO TO THE HOSPITAL
and not endanger their precious carcasses.
Gentlemen, talking about soldiers being in
the almshouses! The men who were found
| there were the men who had come from
them, and who, when they left the army,
! had lapsed into their old condition. No
| true, brave soldier need ever go to the poor
house. The men who went there were
native there. They had no self-respect, no
character. They lay down and opened
their mouths for a teat to suck. He knew
gentlemen who had committed themselves
day after day in opposition to the principle
of the bill, and who were grateful for the
veto. Cries of Who are they?'l. know
what I am talking about. l have heard
them. Repeated cries of Name them
Name your men," You can't do it, and
much noise and confusion THE Repub-
lican congressman, all of them," was Mr..
Bragg's reply, which was greeted with
spectators. who filled the galleries to their
utmost capacity, and who listened eagerly
to all that was said On the floor, now took
part in the demonstrations of disap-
proval and approval. and though
without adding to the noise
and confusion sufficiently to justify
the speaker in ordering the clearing of the
galleries, gave vent to their feelings until
the close of the debate by frequent ap-
plause. Mr. Bragg declared that the press
of the country was opposed to the bill.
Those gentlemen who sat up aloft (pont-
ing to the press gallery might some time
or other turn this Dig pension boom into a
much larger boomerang in some gentle
mans district. Applause 1--WE have
| Jared as well in our districts as the gentle
man has in his" exclaimed Mr.. Henderson,
of Iowa, and this allusiOn to Mr.. Bragg's
| with loud and continued laughter on the
Republican side. Mr.. Bragg repeated that
the press was opposed to the bill. The
great Republican papers of his state stood
| by the president The great Republican
papers Of Ohio
| SUSTAINED THE PRESIDENT.
The great Republican papers stood side
by side with the president. Tie papers of
party, stood by the president. That gal
liant soldier, the governor of Maine, Cham
berlin, stood by the president. Yes"
cried Mr.. Boutelle, land he stands alone in
Maine" [Applause on the Republican
side. II speak for Maine" [Jeers of
the Democrats and cries of Sorry for
Maine."l Mr.. Bragg, continuing-Th he
| great soldier, Palmer, of Illinois, stood by
the president; Gov. Cox. of Ohio, stood by
the president. Old Dan Slckles, of the
Third Army Corps, said that the veto was
a most glorious deed. Brave men of all
parties stood by the president. 1t was only
the little minds that went buzzing about
like insects that opposed him.
Mr.. Henderson, Iowa. contemptuously-
You stand by the president?
MI. Bragg-No staff commissary can
ever excite me. l am speaking for what 1
consider the soldiers interests. The largest